The China National Silk Museum in Hangzhou held “Splendid Decade: Fashion China 2011-2020,” featuring hundreds of China’s contemporary fashion garment masterpieces, sponsored by the China Fashion Association, Fabrics China and organized by the China National Silk Museum.
The exhibition — held annually since 2011 — showcases representative Chinese fashion designs selected throughout the year. To celebrate its tenth anniversary, this year’s “Splendid Decade: Fashion China 2011-2020” presented a collection consisting of the most iconic examples of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear pieces drawn from over the last decade. Creations on display during the exhibition were from one hundred of China’s top fashion designers, including: Wu Haiyan, Mark Cheung, Guo Pei, Lawrence Xu and Xiong Ying, as well as innovative fabric products provided by 40 domestic textile enterprises.
Zhao Feng, director of China National Silk Museum, believes fashion museums are a significant part of the whole fashion ecosystem.
“A museum should be regarded as a hall for clothing culture as well as a classroom for fashion design education,” he said. “Classic items of clothing, which indicate special characteristics of periods of time and technology, are ideal objects for museum collection.”
According to Zhao, the National Silk Museum has accumulated a collection of almost 70,000 clothing and fashion objects from all over the world, which grants it the honor of being China’s largest textile and clothing themed museum.
